Marie Stace, prosecuting, said police went to their home on an unrelated matter on March 18 and during a search found the small quantities of cannabis and MDMA (ecstasy) which they both said were for their own personal use.

At Skegness Magistrates’ Court on July 12, O’Brien said that the cannabis was mixed with tobacco and the ecstasy was ‘only a tiny bit’.

Sykes was fined £60 and O’Brien £180 and both were ordered to pay £60 each in costs and charges.